Re: space

Stuart Young wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> 
> > None of those are usable for computer source code, however. In source
> > code, a specific number of space characters can be vital to the correct
> > functioning of the program! Currently, HTML is unusable as a means of
> > transmitting source code; other content types must be used instead.
> 
> Isn't this what <PRE> is all about?

No, because the contents of a <pre> section is only PCDATA, which
prevents you from using the 'special' SGML characters inside your
program. This will greatly annoy your programmers...

eg

<pre>
PROCEDURE frob
BEGIN
  IF silly <> foolish THEN
    WRITELN("Ooops.");
END
</pre>

is not legal because of the "<>".

Chris

Received on Monday, 23 September 1996 07:25:53 UTC